Garden History
Herbs in small measures provide kitchen, bath and garden pleasures U.S. Botanic Garden Hosts Sixth Annual Herb Day Celebration on Saturday, May 7 Want simple, convenient elegance in your life without making much of an effort? Add some herbs! Herbs elevate ordinary meals to extraordinary, make baths more relaxing and create fragrant gardens. They can […]
Sunday, April 17, 2011 – 5 – 8 p.m. THE VOLLMER CENTER AT CYLBURN ARBORETUM 4915 GREENSPRING AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD 21209 Join us as Adrian Bloom of Blooms of Bressingham introduces us to his favorite garden plants and creative ways to use perennials and grasses in the year-round garden. Over the decades his company, Blooms […]
Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF), a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and protect the integrity of Charleston’s architectural, historical, and cultural heritage, welcomes nearly 15,000 visitors and residents alike during its annual Festival of Houses and Gardens, now in its 64th year. The Festival during March and April, includes a series of award-winning heritage […]
Sidney Lanier, Poet and Musician Cindy Kelly, author of Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore, A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City, led us on a tour of monuments located near Johns Hopkins University campus. This monument of Sidney Lanier was completed in 1941 by sculptor, Hans Schuler of Baltimore. Lanier was a musician […]
Photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most impressive sculptural monuments in America were under construction in Baltimore. Before New York, Philadelphia, and even Washington, D.C., the city built a monument to George Washington, and Baltimore commissioned the country’s first public […]
New Conservancy to Celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Opening of Dumbarton Oaks Park Dumbarton Oaks Park, a 27-acre gem in the heart of Georgetown, will receive new support and hope for restoration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, with the announcement of the formation of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. The park was given to the […]
